News & Updates

Agromisa makes practical knowledge on sustainable agriculture available to farmers in the South. Its main publications are the Agrodoks – practical booklets written in clear, simple language, intended for extension workers and field workers of intermediary organisations. Recent additions to the series include Entering the organic export market , Snail farming and Small-scale mushroom cultivation , the latter translated into Swahili. The Agrodoks and other Agromisa publications are free to download. Once in their website, click on “Search Publications”. Agromisa also offer a free Question & Answer service !

Help the Hospices has announced that applications are being accepted for the 2010 round of Wolfson international bursaries. This grant programme seeks to increase and improve the provision of palliative care in resource-poor Commonwealth countries.

If you work in a region where there has been periods of warfare, major displacement and/or huge repression, your workers have surely met people suffering from mental stress and other problems. Is this a good time to think of actively helping them, in a systematic and informed way? Our new manual Finding Mental Health after Conflict (28 pp. PDF) can guide you with this work. Two new Arabic titles: We now have Arabic language versions of An Introduction to Human Rights in the Middle East & North Africa – a Guide for NGOs (49 pp. PDF) as well as our popular title, A Guide to Fundraising (10 pp. PDF). For more, see our manuals and resources in Arabic Since our last announcement, we have also added a guest publication, the illustrated We can play and move: ideas to help disabled children learn to move through play .

Do you need to conduct some research to plan a project or to design a program? Do you need data for planning or evalution purposes? Or are you studying for your bachelor, master or PhD?

We appreciate it’s not always easy to find everything on our site so here’s a quick guidance: All our manuals (Word and PDF documents) can be found in the Library . Tip: to find a particular title, instead of scrolling through the whole list you can use the ‘Library Themes’ menu which appears at the left of the library page. All our other resources (articles and links to information) are categorized into NGO Fields and NGO Skills . To locate all the info on a specific keyword, it’s quickest to use the searchbox (located at the right on every page). Difficulty downloading from the Library? Depending on your own browser settings, when you click on ‘Download’ the document may open in your browser window instead of being downloaded to your hard disc. If this happens, you can save the PDF to a location of your choice via the browser menu (File > Save As) Does this solve your problems? If not, please contact us.

We are pleased to announce the release of a new manual specifically designed to plug a gap – by helping NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa who want to do more in the field of Human Rights. A lot of consideration and cross-cultural consultation has gone into the making of An Introduction to Human Rights in the Middle East & North Africa – a Guide for NGOs . Note, for slow internet connections, we recommend to download the smaller (1Mb) PDF rather than the Word doc. We’re now have an Arabic language version of this title to join our growing list of manuals and resources in Arabic . Games are a great way to get behaviour change. So we thought we’d breathe new life into an old favourite – Having Healthy Babies: an Educational “Snakes and Ladders” Game gets across the key messages via a colourful game board and question cards. Full supporting information and instructions included! Finally, in case you didn’t notice it slip into our library in the summer: we have a handy 17-page guide to Managing the Project Cycle .

Look at http://www.comminit.com/global/spaces-frontpage . Look under the links Media Development and Science and Media for some interesting developments in this area. I do not know a lot about this area but like a lot of people currently watching events in Iran, its importance is very clear. And these papers have got me thinking.

Two colleagues have done a literature review on the Information needs of health care workers in developing countries with a focus on Africa. Their damning conclusion: “Health care workers in developing countries continue to lack access to basic, practical information to enable them to deliver safe, effective care.

Are you signed up for The Drum Beat ? The most recent issue is about recognising and rewarding successes. It also highlights a few programmes that champion innovative ideas with rewards that are not just money.